AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Racial Discrimination by a Union Against Employees it Does Not Represent 52 Columbia Law Review 1058 (December, 1952) A contract between defendant railroad and defendant brotherhood of brakemen stipulated that another class of employees, designated as train porters and represented by a separate union, could no longer perform the work of brakemen. Since train porters' duties consisted almost entirely in the performance of brakemen's work and since, being Negroes,... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Ross V. State 157 Tex.Crim. 371, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 25636 (1/23/1952) Defendant was convicted of murder in the District Court of Galveston County, C. G. Dibrell, J., and he appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Davidson, J., held that act of prosecuting attorney in peremptorily challenging all members of the negro race on jury panel in murder prosecution of negro was not a denial of due process of law. Judgment... 1952 Cases Yes  
  State ex Rel. Hawkins V. Board of Control 60 So.2d 162, Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc (8/1/1952) Original mandamus proceeding by the State of Florida on relation of Virgil D. Hawkins against Board of Control, a body corporate, and others, to require defendants to admit relator to college of law at the University of Florida. The relator did not offer any evidence upon issue whether Negro law school facilities at Florida Agricultural and... 1952 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  State ex Rel. Hobby V. Disman 250 S.W.2d 137, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1, Docket Number 42565 (6/9/1952) Mandamus action by the State on the relation of Gertrude Hobby and others against Butler Disman and others, as members of Board of Directors of School District of Kansas City, and Harold E. Moore, as Superintendent of Schools of School District of Kansas City, to compel defendants to transfer negro children and wards of relators to another school... 1952 Cases Yes  
  State ex Rel. Rankin V. Anderson 61 So.2d 920, Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division B (12/16/1952) The State, on relation of a Negro, brought mandamus proceedings against school authorities to compel them to admit the relator to vocational school at which woodworking classes were maintained. The Circuit Court for Escambia County, L. L. Fabisinski, J., entered judgment denying writ of mandamus, and relator appealed. The Supreme Court, Drew, J.,... 1952 Cases Yes  
  State ex Rel. Treadaway V. Louisiana State Bd. Of Health 221 La. 1048, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 40715 (11/10/1952) Mandamus proceedings to compel State-Board of Health to correct its death records to show that relator's mother was member of the Caucasian race. The Civil District Court for Parish of Orleans, Division A, No. 267-139, Paul E. Chasez, J., entered judgment in favor of relator, and respondent appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court... 1952 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State ex Rel. Treadaway V. Louisiana State Bd. Of Health 56 So.2d 249, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, Docket Number 19723 (1/21/1952) Mandamus proceeding by the State, on the relation of Grant T. Treadaway, against the Louisiana State Board of Health to compel correction of a death record to show that relator's mother was a member of the Caucasian race. The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Division A, No. 267139, Paul E. Chasez, J., entered... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Taylor V. Brotherhood of Ry. & S.s. Clerks, Freight Handlers, Exp. & Station Emp. 106 F.Supp. 438, United States District Court, District of Columbia, Civil Division, Docket Number 4594-51 (6/25/1952) Action by James P. Taylor and others, colored railway employees, against the Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, for declaratory judgment of rights under union shop amendment to Railway Labor Act and for injunctive relief. On defendants' motion for... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Williams V. Carolina Coach Co. 111 F.Supp. 329, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division, Docket Number CIV. 1386 (11/18/1952) Action by colored passenger against interstate bus company for damages resulting when plaintiff was removed from the bus and arrested for violation of State statute and bus company regulation requiring racial segregation of passengers. The District Court, Sterling Hutcheson, Chief Judge, held, inter alia, that the regulation and statute imposed an... 1952 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Williams V. Yellow Cab Co. Of Pittsburgh 103 F.Supp. 847, United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania, Docket Number CIV. 9266 (3/3/1952) Harrison Williams and others, on behalf of themselves and all Negro taxicab drivers employed by the Yellow Cab Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sued said company, Taxicab Drivers Local No. 128, and others for a declaratory judgment and order, defining plaintiffs' rights under the law and a collective bargaining contract between named defendants... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Williams V. Yellow Cab Co. Of Pittsburgh, Pa. 200 F.2d 302, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Docket Number 10760 (12/8/1952) Suit by 41 Negro taxicab drivers against a taxicab company, a labor union and others for an injunction against continuation of discriminatory practices against plaintiffs, a declaratory judgment that certain working regulations were illegal and void, compensatory damages for conspiracy to discriminate against and segregate plaintiffs because of... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Winborne V. Taylor 195 F.2d 649, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6383 (4/1/1952) Wilmer Winborne and another, infants, by A. R. Winborne, their father and next friend, and others, sued H. P. Taylor and the other members of the State Board of Education and others seeking a declaratory judgment and a permanent injunction on the ground that defendants had unconstitutionally discriminated against Negro children attending the public... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Appellants' Brief Opposing Motion to Dismiss or Affirm, Briggs V. Elliott Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 273 (9/19/1951) Appellees seek to avoid review of the decision of the Court below by asserting: (1) that the question of the validity of statutes requiring segregation of the races in elementary and high... 1951 Briefs Yes  
  Bates V. Batte 187 F.2d 142, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13215 (2/15/1951) Gladys Noel Bates and another, Individually, etc., brought action against John C. Batte, etc., and others, to restrain the defendants from fixing and maintaining, on the basis of color or race, lower teacher salary schedules for negro, than for white, teachers. A judgment dismissing the complaint was entered in the United States District Court for... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Battle V. Wichita Falls Jr. College Dist. 101 F.Supp. 82, United States District Court N.D. Texas, Wichita Falls Division, Docket Number CIV. 588 (11/27/1951) Action by Willie Faye Battle, and others, against the Wichita Falls Junior College District, and others, to require defendants to admit plaintiffs, members of the Negro race, to the defendant college. The District Court, Atwell, J., held that as the facts showed that attending the college by those who resided within the Wichita Falls School... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Beal V. Holcombe 193 F.2d 384, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13562 (12/20/1951) A. W. Beal, and others, Negroes, citizens of Texas and resident taxpayers of Houston, brought an action against Oscar Holcombe, Mayor of the City of Houston, and others, for a declaratory judgment as to the plaintiffs' civil rights and for an injunction for the protection of such rights. The United States District Court for the Southern District of... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Brown V. Board of Ed. Of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. 98 F.Supp. 797, United States District Court, D. Kansas, Docket Number CIV. T-316 (8/3/1951) Action by Oliver Brown and others against the Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, and others for a judgment declaring unconstitutional a state statute authorizing cities of the first class to maintain separate schools for white and colored children in the grades below high school and to enjoin enforcement of the statute. The... 1951 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Brown V. Board of Trustees of Lagrange Independent School Dist. 187 F.2d 20, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13317 (1/22/1951) Julius Brown sued the Board of Trustees of the LaGrange Independent School District, and others, for the benefit of himself, his oldest daughter and all other persons of Negro blood and African descent, seeking a declaratory judgment that, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, he and the persons on whose behalf the suit was brought had been... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Chance V. Lambeth 186 F.2d 879, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6200 (1/27/1951) William C. Chance, a Negro, brought an action against A. S. Lambeth, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Inc., for damages resulting from plaintiff's alleged wrongful ejectment because of plaintiff's race from a railroad car on which plaintiff was an interstate passenger, and from plaintiff's alleged unlawful arrest and imprisonment in... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Charles V. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. 188 F.2d 691, United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit, Docket Number 10083 (3/12/1951) Suit by Rosa Charles against Norfolk & Western Railway Company, for assault and battery and false imprisonment based on plaintiff's alleged expulsion from a train and arrest and imprisonment following her refusal to transfer to a car for colored passengers. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, John... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Commonwealth V. Carolina Coach Co. Of Va. 192 Va. 745, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (9/5/1951) The Commonwealth, on the relation of Everett Raney, brought a proceeding to enjoin the Carolina Coach Company of Virginia from discriminating against relator as a passenger on respondent's busses because of his race and color and to compel respondent to transport relator without discrimination. From an order of the State Corporation Commission... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Daniels V. Crawford 99 F.Supp. 208, United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division, Docket Number 449-B (7/12/1951) Lloyd Ray Daniels and Bennie Daniels brought habeas corpus proceedings against Joseph P. Crawford, Warden, Central Prison of state of North Carolina, Raleigh North Carolina, for release from unlawful detention under sentence of death. The District Court, Gilliam, J., held that the evidence did not show purposeful and systematic exclusion of negroes... 1951 Cases Yes  
Richard L. Stone Discrimination in the Selection of Grand Juries: Theory and Practice 29 Texas Law Review 817 (June, 1951) There is probably no single phase of constitutional law that has received more careful consideration by the United States Supreme Court than that concerning the civil liberties of citizens. Quite often the Supreme Court has been faced with the problem of determining whether a citizen's civil liberties have been infringed, and many of these cases... 1951 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  District of Columbia V. John R. Thompson Co. 81 A.2d 249, Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Docket Number 967 (5/24/1951) John R. Thompson Company, Inc., a body corporate, was charged by information in four separate counts of violating acts of the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia making it a misdemeanor for the proprietor of a restaurant or similar establishment to refuse to sell or wait on any respectable well-behaved person without regard to race or... 1951 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Gilchrist V. Com. 246 S.W.2d 435, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (11/9/1951) Berthenia Gilchrist was convicted in the Union Circuit Court, M. L. Blackwell, J., for murder, and she appealed. The Court of Appeals, Cullen, C., held that jury commissioners' affidavits that they took names for the jury wheel from both white and colored persons' tax lists and placed several Negroes' names in the wheel were sufficient to overcome... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Gray V. Board of Trustees of University of Tenn. 100 F.Supp. 113, United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1567 (4/13/1951) Action by Gene Mitchell Gray and others against the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee, etc., and others to enjoin defendants from denying plaintiffs admission to graduate school and college of law as students because they were members of the Negro race. The United States District Court, Miller, Circuit Judge, held that the case... 1951 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Gray V. University of Tenn. 97 F.Supp. 463, United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northern Division, Docket Number 1567 (4/20/1951) Gene Mitchell Gray and others, for themselves and on behalf of all Negro citizens similarly situated, sued the University of Tennessee and others to enjoin execution of an order of the University Board of Trustees denying plaintiffs' applications for admission to the University as students. On plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. The District... 1951 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Heard V. Ouachita Parish School Bd. 94 F.Supp. 897, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV 2996 (1/22/1951) Declaratory judgment action by Ardie C. Heard, and others, against Ouachita Parish School Board and another, for a determination that there was discrimination in buildings, facilities, equipment courses, transportation to and from school for school children, solely because of race or color. Defendants moved to dismiss the action for want of... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Mckissick V. Carmichael 187 F.2d 949, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6201 (3/27/1951) Suit by Floyd B. McKissick, and others, against William Donald Carmichael, Jr., President of the University of North Carolina, and others, to prohibit defendants from denying plaintiffs, qualified negro students, admission to the School of Law of the University of North Carolina. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Mills V. Woods 190 F.2d 201, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13369 (6/30/1951) Roscoe Woods, Jr., and his father and next friend, Roscoe Woods, and others, brought suit against S. W. Mills, and others, individually and as members of the Board of Trustees for the Euless, Tarrant County, Texas Independent School District No. 95, and others, to have action of board in discontinuing elementary school in district for negroes... 1951 Cases Yes  
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